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WP Engine
Company blog · wpengine.com/blog · on HN as dotBenwebbusiness
WP Engine is the company blog at wpengine.com, writing about web and business. Since 2010, 113 different Hacker News readers have linked it 140 times, most often “Managed WP hosting-fast, secure, worth giving up control over the environment?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-14, and you can follow it by feed.
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Most-linked posts?
- Managed WP hosting-fast, secure, worth giving up control over the environment?8 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2010-07-29
- Re: Automattic's Actionable Misconduct Directed to WP Engine [pdf]8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2024-09-24
- Launched: Managed & Securified WordPress (@asmartbear, @technosailor, @cullenw)6 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2010-07-29
- Unmasked: What 10M passwords reveal about the people who choose them6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2015-09-13
- /plans/4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-01-02
- WP Engine's Infrastructure4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2012-01-11
- WP Engine Sues Matt Mullenweg [pdf]4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-10-03
- /4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-10-17
- Ensuring Stability and Security: Recent Timeline3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-10-25
- WP Engine to Acquire Flywheel for WP Hosting3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-06-24
What Hacker News says?
The strictness is in what may be listed in the robots txt, not the User-Agent header as sent by bots. the example given in the linked draft standard[0] makes this abundantly clear that it's on the bot to understand how to interpret the corresponding lines of robots.txt. Of course, in practice robots.txt tend to look less like [1] and more like [2]. [0]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-rep-wg-topic#section-2.2.1 [1…
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on “Google’s robots.txt parser is now open source”Submitted Filed: WP Engine Inc. v Automattic Inc. and Matthew Charles Mullenweg [pdf] as a story · 574 points
HN discussionWe do managed hosting, so the comparison is to "Managed WP Hosting" - which is exactly what the page says. Here's an example of a managed WP host: https://wpengine.com/plans/ Here is an independent speed test which finds Ghost (more specifically: Node) to be up to 1900% faster than WP - https://blog.appdynamics.com/engineering/example-node-js-fas... We don't make baseless claims and we're not in the business of lyin…
Comment linking /plans/
on “What we've learned from building Ghost after 5 years and $3M”Submitted WP Engine CEO Jason Cohen replaced by COO Heather Brunner as a story · 75 points
HN discussionIt's very complicated and beyond my ability to analyze accurately. The court filing is here if you'd like to have a look. Some california law around anticompetitive behaviour applies. I thought of trying to summarize but don't wish to be inaccurate. Obviously this is under litigation so it remains to be seen which headings they win on if any. But it definitely isn't as simple as being able to selectively withdraw a…
Comment linking /wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Complaint-WP-Engine-v-Automattic-et-al.pdf
on “WordPress Is in Trouble”Submitted WP Engine Security Breach: Customer Credentials Exposed as a story · 62 points
HN discussionIt's about disabling revisions. Or private equity. Or not contributing back to core. Or trademarks. Or freeloading on w.org infrastructure. Or hacking Stripe plugins. Or whatever else might stick to the wall in this 18-hour period... Start with this: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/991906/d7340f3b866d855b/ Then read the complaint: https://wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Complaint-WP... (also the post's link).…
Comment linking /wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Complaint-WP-Engine-v-Automattic-et-al-with-Exhibit.pdf
on “Filed: WP Engine Inc. v Automattic Inc. and Matthew Charles Mullenweg [pdf]”Submitted Re: Automattic's Actionable Misconduct Directed to WP Engine [pdf] as a story · 41 points
HN discussionLong post, writing this for myself as well: The players - WordPress is open source, under GPLv2; a least since 2011; - WordPress is managed by the WordPress Foundation since 2010 with Matthew Charles Mullenweg as director; - Automattic is a private company that owns and runs WordPress.com, whose CEO and founder is Matthew Charles Mullenweg; - WP Engine is a separated company that uses Wordpress that makes money by h…
Comment linking /blog/wp-engine-closes-1-2m-in-series-a-financing/
on “Filed: WP Engine Inc. v Automattic Inc. and Matthew Charles Mullenweg [pdf]”Submitted The detailed story of our new security system as a story · 31 points
HN discussion> Disabling revisions is a configuration change. This is the simplest possible change you could make, and it’s unacceptable in his eyes. Actually this is wrong. Yes the constant WP_POST_REVISIONS exists. But WP Engine has disabled this constant. They do in fact "butcher" WordPress in the sense that they remove a feature, you can't turn it back on by yourself, and you need to talk to their support to get a limited ve…
Comment linking /support/platform-settings/
on “Filed: WP Engine Inc. v Automattic Inc. and Matthew Charles Mullenweg [pdf]”Submitted WordPress Core is Secure as a story · 24 points
HN discussionNo-one is being sued (yet) and wordpress.org was not targeted in any way. Matt is being dishonest by repeating this lie anywhere and everywhere. Including on the very page you linked. WPEngine sent a cease and desist letter addressed to, and targetting only , Matt Mullenweg and his for profit company Automattic. WPEngine are explicitly not targeting wordpress.org in the letter. You can read it here: https://wpengine…
Comment linking /wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Cease-and-Desist-Letter-to-Automattic-and-Request-to-Preserve-Documents-Sent.pdf
on “WordPress.org bans WP Engine”Submitted Why your WordPress site will Never be as fast as mine. as a story · 21 points
HN discussionIt also explicitly says you can't use "Wordpress" in your product names, and WP Engine is doing that. I thought it might be common, but the other big providers do not use WordPress in their product names. Essential Wordpress Core Wordpress Enterprise Wordpress https://wpengine.com/plans/
Comment linking /plans/
on “WordPress.org bans WP Engine”Submitted WP Engine Got Hacked as a story · 16 points
HN discussionThere is more to the story than just this event. For context: https://wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Cease-and-De... https://automattic.com/2024/wp-engine-cease-and-desist-exhib...
Comment linking /wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Cease-and-Desist-Letter-to-Automattic-and-Request-to-Preserve-Documents-Sent.pdf
on “WordPress.org bans WP Engine”Submitted WP Engine – Ensuring Stability and Security: Recent Timeline as a story · 13 points
HN discussion> the actual definition is going to require some sort of "meeting of the minds" and (not necessarily written) partnership agreement to qualify as a "partner" for the purpose of the injunction It almost certainly refers to WP Engine's partnership program [1]. The catch-all is WP Engine users. It would seem prudent for anyone doing business with Wordpress to become a WP Engine user so they can benefit from the injunct…
Comment linking /partners/
on “Matt Mullenweg deactivates WordPress accounts of contributors planning a fork”Submitted Ensuring Stability and Security: Recent Timeline as a story · 13 points
HN discussionBut he said "a lot of money". Maybe http://wpengine.com/ instead?
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on “Ten predictions (2004)”Submitted WP Engine acquires StudioPress as a story · 13 points
HN discussion21! At this point WP is “boring technology” which makes it a great choice for many sites. It still does much that's hard to get anywhere else: - The core update process. It's long been one-click. Almost no other CMS or self-hosted framework offers as smooth an update process. (With Laravel, for example, I end up paying for Laravel Shift and even then it requires manual intervention that would be hard for a non-dev t…
Comment linking /smart-plugin-manager/
on “WP21”Submitted Unmasked: What 10M passwords reveal about the people who choose them as a story · 10 points
HN discussionI think they meant that WPEngine bought ACF: https://wpengine.com/blog/wp-engine-acquires-delicious-brain...
Comment linking /blog/wp-engine-acquires-delicious-brains-plugins-including-advanced-custom-fields/
on “The ACF plugin on the WordPress directory has been taken over by WordPress.org”Submitted Do You Have 100% Uptime? as a story · 6 points
HN discussionIt looks like Wordpress may be the solution: https://wpengine.com/resources/wordpress-video-embed-how-to/ I’ve never used it, but they make it sound like just a few clicks.
Comment linking /resources/wordpress-video-embed-how-to/
on “Terminated”Submitted Hitting the HN Frontpage: A Case Study with Traffic Stats from WPEngine as a story · 5 points
HN discussionWhile it's awesome that the good folks at Pagely were able to work with you a little to try to address your problem, like most PaaS providers (eg AWS, Heroku) we don't provide consultancy services - there is an amazing WordPress community of consultants and dev shops out there and its just not what we want to get into Which is fine, but then you website says this: - http://wpengine.com/wordpress-experts/ Not so at W…
Comment linking /wordpress-experts/
on “My experience with WPEngine”Submitted WP Engine to Acquire Flywheel for WP Hosting as a story · 4 points
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